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Zan Rowe, The Mix

LA based singer-song writer Jenny Lewis focused on her latest solo album 'The Voyager' when performing at Splendour in the Grass this past weekend, but she still managed to throw in some favourites from her days fronting the male-majority band Rilo Kiley of the late '90s and 2000s.

Carlo Zeccola

There are few artists in the music world who rival David Bowie as a style icon. His music has reached audiences across the world, but his sartorial statements have been just as influential."His genius has really been finding equally talented people to work with," says Dr Kathryn Johnson, one of the curatorial team responsible for the exhibition David Bowie Is.

Jason Di Rosso, The Mix

Ruben Guthrie is Brendan Cowell's debut as a feature director and is based on a play he wrote for Sydney's Belvoir St Theatre in 2008. The actor turned writer-director has chosen a roguish advertising executive with an alcohol problem as his main character, and the film centres on the hedonistic excess of Sydney's harbour-side suburbs.

Karina Carvalho, The Mix

Jazz musician and Queensland Music Festival artistic director James Morrison will take to the stage with singer-songwriter Megan Washington and jazz pianist Marian Petrescu in what is one of the most anticipated events of this year's festival.

Rachel Storey

An artist who works in just one medium seems to be a thing of the past these days. Lines are blurred; dancers make video art, painters are performance artists. At Carriageworks in Sydney a new exhibition, 24 Frames Per Second, showcases the best of this multi-genre practice.

Carlo Zeccola

Puppetry is a near-forgotten fine art sometimes dismissed as entertainment for children, but this month's Festival of Puppetry at Melbourne's La Mama Theatre sought to challenge that perspective, and introduce the craft to adult audiences.

Monique Schafter, The Mix

While a cappella has been pushed from its classic association with barbershop quartets into the realms of R&B and even electronic music thanks to pop groups and a little encouragement from reality television competitions, one group has taken it even further, into the genre of heavy metal.

Mazoe Ford

When 15 per cent of arts funding was moved sideways in the budget, the sector was caught off guard and, now, a Senate inquiry will be held into the changes while an 'us and them' mentality seems to be emerging between the bigger and smaller companies.

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Patricia Piccinini makes strange, grotesquely beautiful sculptures that look like works of genetic engineering, but her partner and fellow sculptor Peter Hennessey prefers to work in metal. Together they have created The Shadow Calling, an exhibition that opened as part of this year's Dark Mofo festival in Hobart.

Nikki Tugwell

Performance artist Marina Abramovic is in Sydney as part of the Kaldor Arts Project where she will be teaching the Abramovic Method. This practice aims to help the audience get back in touch with their inner selves. In her quest to pioneer performance art Abramovic has cut herself, burnt herself, had a bow and arrow pointed at her heart and sat for hundreds of hours in the same chair in silence.

Carlo Zeccola

Beyond MONA's gravitational pull Tasmanian art is often about landscape. This year Hobart's winter solstice festival, Dark Mofo, was pushed beyond the city as crowds journeyed to Cradle Mountain for two nights of Wild at Heart.

Zan Rowe, The Mix

Home-grown record label Future Classic has been at the forefront of Australia's burgeoning electronic music scene and now, as the company turns 10, it has some of the country's most well-known electronic artists on its books. Flume, Flight Facilities, Seekae, Wave Racer, and Chet Faker are each represented by the label, and have each grown to international fame.

Rachel Storey

There have been rumblings of rebellion in the international film industry of late. Dress-code boycotts at Cannes, podium protests at the Oscars. Industry insiders are speaking out over gender inequality and a lack of cultural diversity in film - on and off the screen.

James Valentine, The Mix

It's not often that an Australian musical graces the international scene, or even makes it to domestic theatres. Australia's musical theatre portfolio is fairly limited beyond the success of The Boy From Oz, but a competition hosted by New Musicals Australia is helping a few lucky writers move their scripts from the page to the stage.

Giles Hardie, The Mix

The Terminator is back and so is Arnold Schwarzenegger. In Sydney to promote the fifth instalment of the 30 year old film franchise Schwarzenegger met with Giles Hardie to discuss the important topics, from internet memes to ageing in Hollywood.